House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced that his committee will hold a hearing on the U.S. economic relationship with China next Tuesday, October 25th.

Several U.S. manufacturers of solar cells and panels have filed dumping charges against Chinese firms, seeking to offset illegal subsidies. Polling conducted by the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) has shown that the majority of Americans favor U.S. action against China’s cheating.

Two instances emerged this week of federal U.S. tax dollars benefiting manufacturing projects outside the U.S. – Finnish cars and Asian traffic lights, to be more specific.

The U.S. Departments of Transportation and Commerce have partnered to help revitalize America's rail manufacturing sector and to encourage the creation of domestic manufacturing jobs.

Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) wants the DoD to use more American steel products.  He explained that “the American military should be protected by American steel.”

And finally, a conference of local unions and policy organizations, including AAM, called for the expansion of transit manufacturing at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in NYC.